Sex Change Therapy

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    Medicare Coverage for Sex Change Surgery: How We Got Here

    As mentioned in co-blogger Matthew Lawrence‘s prior posts (here) and (here), Medicare’s Departmental Appeals Board (DAB) recently vacated a decades-old National Coverage Determination (NCD) precluding coverage for sex change therapy.  That opens the door for Medicare coverage for sex change therapy, but does not guarantee coverage. In this second blog of a two-part post, we will discuss how we…

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    Medicare Coverage for Sex Change Therapy: What’s Next

    By Matthew Lawrence and Elizabeth Guo Last month Medicare’s policy on coverage for sex change therapy changed somewhat. (See Matt’s earlier post here.) Specifically, Medicare’s Departmental Appeals Board invalidated the long-standing National Coverage Determination that dubbed sex change therapy to be non-covered, per se. Co-blogger Elizabeth Guo and I have done some further digging on…